{"id":32611,"date":"2013-02-23T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T06:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/23\/movie-review-moonraker-1979.html"},"modified":"2013-02-23T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T06:37:56","slug":"movie-review-moonraker-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/23\/movie-review-moonraker-1979.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Moonraker" (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Worst. Bond. Movie. Period. \u00a0And though this is a front-to-back rewatch, I don't think I'm going to change my mind on that.<\/div>\n

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Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u00bd review of Moonraker (1979) on Letterboxd.com<\/a>
\n Ugh. And, um, bleah. While the Roger Moore era was filled (not necessarily with Moore’s concurrence) with cheesiness and camp, “Moonraker” is, in may ways, the nadir of the series. There’s practically…\n <\/p>\n

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Worst. Bond. Movie. Period. \u00a0And though this is a front-to-back rewatch, I don't think I'm going to change my mind on that. Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u00bd review of Moonraker (1979) on Letterboxd.com Ugh. And, um, bleah. While the Roger Moore era was filled (not necessarily with Moore’s concurrence) with cheesiness and camp, “Moonraker” is, in may … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Moonraker" (1979)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32795,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/movie-review-for-your-eyes-only-1981.html","url_meta":{"origin":32611,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "For Your Eyes Only" (1981)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Mar-13 3:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A much more down-to-earth 007 film, but kind of dull for all that. 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